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STEPS: Creating a New Folder
1. Move the mouse cursor down to the taskbar at the bottom of your screen and right-click the Start
button.
2. Choose Explore.
3. On the left pane of Windows Explorer, click the drive where you want to create the new folder. If
you don’t know where to create the folder, choose the drive where AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT is
installed. If you’re on a network, choose the drive that represents your computer. If you keep your
work in subfolders of the
My Documents (Documents in Windows Vista) folder, click that
folder.
4. If you want to make a subfolder (a folder within a folder), choose the folder where you want to
create the subfolder.
5. From the Explorer menu, choose File ➪ New ➪ Folder, or Organize ➪ New Folder. A new,
highlighted folder, named
New Folder, appears in the right pane. You may have to scroll down
to see it.
6. Type AutoCAD Bible for the folder name and press Enter. (If you did the exercises from a previ-
ous edition of this book, such as AutoCAD 2007 and AutoCAD LT 2007 Bible, and you already have
a folder named
AutoCAD Bible, first rename the original folder to something such as
ACAD2007Bible.)
Save all drawings that you create for this book in your
AutoCAD Bible folder.
Creating a folder for your drawings as described in the previous steps is essential before you
go on to exercises in the rest of this book.
Using the Interface
If you did the Quick Start exercise, you had the experience of drawing a window, but I chose the simplest
method of completing each task because I had not yet described the AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT screen. In
the following exercise, you draw some simple objects, but experiment with all the features of the user inter-
face to get a feel for how they work. (Chapter 3 explains in more detail how to use commands.)
For this exercise, simply follow the instructions exactly. When you type the X and Y coordinates (shown in
bold), type the first number, a comma, and then the second number, with no spaces between them.
Don’t worry if you don’t understand everything you’re doing. It all becomes clear as you
progress through this book. If you haven’t read the Preface, now is a good time to go back and
read the part that explains how to follow the exercises.
Follow the prompts shown next. As explained in the Preface, you type what appears in bold.
STEPS: Drawing a Line in Four Ways
1. Start AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT.
You see a new drawing. (If you are prompted for a template, type or choose acad.dwt. or
acadlt.dwt.)
2. From the menu, choose Draw ➪ Line.
3. Move your mouse to move the crosshairs cursor around the screen. Notice the Dynamic Input
tooltip that follows the cursor around, as shown in Figure 1.4. (If you don’t see the Dynamic
TIP
TIP
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